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• Chanel & Adidas/Reebok File More Federal Cybersquatting Lawsuits

  Both Chanel and Adidas/Rebook filed federal lawsuits today over domain names. These are separate suits to the suits Chanel and Adidas filed last week. Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• The NewYorker Mag Covers New gTLDs: “The Great Internet Land Grab” & Calls Mr....

  The New Yorker Magazine  just did a cover story on the new gTLD program entitled “The Great  Internet Land Grab” “Suddenly reorganizing the way we navigate the... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Archeo (Marchex) Puts Up Over $7,400,000 (Estibot Value) Of Domains In Auction A...

  Archo the company that Marchex is hoping to spin off into a separate public company is holding an auction of 71 domain names that have an appraised Estibot valu... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ANA: ICANN is Falling Short of Its Mission to Protect Internet Security and...

  The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has just weighted in on the Name Collision issue in a in a letter sent to ICANN. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• On Day Of Hacking, Melbourne IT Announces CEO Theo Hnarakis Will Step Down By th...

  Melbourne IT chief executive Theo Hnarakis will step down by the end of year after more than a decade as CEO according to afr. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• As Comment Period On New gTLD Name Collisions Come To An End, Comments Flood Int...

  As the comment period for the Name Collision report comes to an end there were plenty of comments submitted by applicants and others. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Newest On Name Collision: 20% Uncalculated Risk New gTLD’s Can “Begin...

  ICANN issued this statement on name collision report last night :”ICANN has solicited community comment on the mitigation steps outlined in the staff... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Approves $200 Million Dollar Budget For 2014; 306 Employees & Still No...

  ICANN just approved  its 2014 budget which is coming in at over $200,000,000 in revenue. The budget anticipates ICANN staff growing to over 300 people but the... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Dog Days Of Summer? Fourth $50K+ Domain Sale Of The Day, As 22 Year Old Domain...

  August is usually referred to as the dog days of summer ,where not much is happening in business and typically domain sales slow up. Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo.com Sells Deco.com For $100,000; Fork.com For $50,000

  In its second $100,000 sale reported today, Sedo.com has sold Deco.com for $100,000. Earlier today we reported that Godaddy.com sold OPS.com through a Sedo MLS... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Garry Chernoff Sells OPS.com For $100,000 On Godaddy.com

  The domain name OPS.com just sold on Godaddy.com for $100,000 coming through Sedo.com system. Sedo.com announced the sale on its Facebook page just a short... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) Supports NTAG Letter on Name Collision;...

  In a comment posted on ICANN website concerning the new gTLD name collision report,  the Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) issued a consensus statement that... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Breaking: .Com Domain Name Registrations Top 110 Million Mark For The 1st Time

  

  For the first time in the history of the Internet there are no more than 110,000,000 .com domain names registered according to Verisign. As of 8:36:10 AM UTC... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Approves Renewal Of .Info; .Org and .Biz Registry Contracts Without URS...

  According to a resolution passed by the ICANN Board,  ICANN has renewed the registry contracts for the .info, .biz and .org contracts without the Uniform Rapid... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Chanel, Inc. Files Suit Against Cybersquatters Over 68 Domain Names

  Chanel, Inc has become the latest brand holder to skip the UDRP process and head right for federal court. Chanel filed a federal suit in the Florida Southern... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Corrects Friday’s New gTLD Initial Evaluation Posting: Taipei Is Eligible...

  

  On Friday in releasing its Initial Evaluation results ICANN mistakenly showed that the new gTLD application for the Geographic area of  .Taipei failed IE and wa... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Pew Research: In US 70% Have A BroadBand Connection At Home; 20% Don’t Have...

  Pew Research Center’s Internet &American Life Project released its report entitled “Home Broadband 2013″ and found that in the United States  20% of... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• FairWinds Tells Fortune 500 Clients To Pay Attention to Domain Hacks: Only 3...

  Brand Protection company Fairwinds in a blog post today,  told it big brands clients, the Fortune 500 companies they represent to pay attention to and try to... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Brand Protection Fails: This Weeks Trademark Infringing Domains That Brands Let...

  Welcome to another installment in our continuing series of  trademark infringing domain names that Brands allowed to let drop and wind up in third parties hands. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Spends Almost $1.5 Million On NON-STAFFERS To Attend Last Two ICANN...

  According to two reports published by ICANN.org its spent over almost $1.5 Million in transporting, housing, feeding and for Visa’s for 379 NON-ICANN staff to... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH